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What are your views on religion?

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"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

- Richard Dawkins
 
A reason that I am atheist is because of the start or religion. I thought religion started when Greeks (or a similar ancient civilization) believed that everything in nature were gods or something. Like the rain was a god and the ocean was a god, etc. So how did people start believing in Christianity?
 
Well, Christianity started when Jesus was born. It was a change from Judaism over to the belief that the messiah was Jesus. However, people who believe Jesus is not the messiah but still have the same line of religion and are just waiting for their messiah are of the Jewish faith.

How Judaism was started, I'm not entirely sure how to answer that.

Of course, I may be wrong. Feel free to correct me.
 
I have a sort of semi-atheist view on religion. To put it simply in a way I do believe in gods, both not in the way gods are typically thought of. Since almost all religions in some way have there god(s) and or/ savior come from the skys by "flying" or "floating" that makes me think of aliens. Alot of the weapons the "gods" use are in ways similar to what weapons aliens could use.

I started thinking this stuff when I was 10 way before I even knew there were an ass load of shows about it on the History Channel.

There is more to this but if you get what I am talking about in the first paragraph, just look it up. Good page is on Wikipedia.
 
Religious debates are no fun. I force it on no one, and never judge based on beliefs, but I am myself an atheist. Have been since I was about 13 or so, which coincidentally is around when I learned to solve a cube. Could the 2 be related? Lol I'm kidding.
 
MiPiCubed said:
Religious debates are no fun. I force it on no one, and never judge based on beliefs, but I am myself an atheist. Have been since I was about 13 or so, which coincidentally is around when I learned to solve a cube. Could the 2 be related? Lol I'm kidding.
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Was that when you started heavily using the Internet? I have notice that once you start going to any chat rooms, forums, or any thing like that, your faith is destroyed because you learn things that your parents shelter from.
 
emolover said:
Was that when you started heavily using the Internet? I have notice that once you start going to any chat rooms, forums, or any thing like that, your faith is destroyed because you learn things that your parents shelter from.
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I actually came to the decision by myself. I stared to think hard about many things at that time, and it just made sense to me. Shortly after that I was on the internet, specifically Reddit, and I then became sure of my atheism.
 
I will jump in and provide my view. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or as some know it as Mormon, or LDS. I am 24, this is certainly a choice I have put a lot of effort into and a decision that I have made myself. It is interesting to see others view of God, or lack thereof. My view of God is that he is much more loving and caring than most view, and that most everyone that lives will return to him after this life. I have felt in a very personal way the influence of God, and its really not something that can be explained or put into words.
 
What I personally dislike about some (if not all. I really don't know) Christian religions is that they say that if you believe in Jesus or whatever, you will go to heaven, but will otherwise go to hell. like wtf? So every living thing (if that's what you believe. If not, just think every human) ever to have exist, on earth, and possibly on other planets, before the beginning of religion went to hell after they died? It seems waaayy to unlikely to me.

I think that the OP should make a poll for what religion you believe in, just to see the percentage cleanly layed out. I would put things like: atheism, christian, jewish, muslim, buddhist, hinduism, etc. Just the major ones.
 
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I will jump in and provide my view. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or as some know it as Mormon, or LDS. I am 24, this is certainly a choice I have put a lot of effort into and a decision that I have made myself. It is interesting to see others view of God, or lack thereof. My view of God is that he is much more loving and caring than most view, and that most everyone that lives will return to him after this life. I have felt in a very personal way the influence of God, and its really not something that can be explained or put into words.
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What makes your belief more correct than others?
 
Loud and proud atheist. I think the last time a religion thread popped up on here I was still a devout Christian. :D I went to church every Sunday, played guitar in the worship band, and went to a weekly bible study that delved into all sorts of apologetics. When I went away to university I stopped attending church. It gave me some time to think clearly and be honest with myself.
 
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